Christmas Eve

"Santa tell me, are you really there? Don't make me fall in love again if he won't be here next year"

Izzy's singing voice floated through the corridors of the institute. The whole building was buzzing with excitement. There were only hours left before Christmas Day and all the last minute preparations were being made.

Clary was stringing up the last of the decorations in the dining hall. The table was laid with plates and cutlery, artistically folded napkins, courtesy of Magnus, sat at every place on the table. Large mats lined the middle of the table, ready to be loaded with food the next day. She hooked the last piece of bunting up on the wall and stepped back. The room looked amazing, as though someone had taken it straight out of a television advert.

"Wow" said a voice from the doorway "It looks amazing!". Clary turned to see Jace leaning against the doorway grinning. "You think so?" she asked. "Yeah, it looks amazing!" Jace replied nodding. "Come see the library. I have to say, as much as I dislike it, Magnus has done a great job." he added taking her hand and leading her through the institute.

Clary gasped as she saw the library. "What do you think?" Magnus called. "It's amazing" Clary said breathlessly. The shelves of the room were lined with glittery tinsel and the banisters were wound with twinkling fairy lights. A large Christmas tree stood in the corner, the base surrounded by presents wrapped in gold and red wrapping paper.

Isabelle and Alec walked through the door, arms laden with presents and added them to the pile beneath the tree. "I think this Christmas is going to be the best one yet" Isabelle said smiling. Jace slipped an arm round Clary's waist. "Hopefully" he said.

"Simon's coming around in about an hour" Isabelle said as they all settled in the library to watch a Christmas film. "And Santa is coming around in about 4 hours" said Clary excitedly. Jace rolled his eyes. "But Santa isn't-" Alec began before he was hit in the face by a cushion courtesy of Isabelle. Clary and Isabelle grinned at each other and Jace rolled his eyes again.

Soon everyone was curled up watching A Christmas Carol on the television. Clary felt very satisfied but couldn't help feeling like something was missing. She gasped suddenly. "We have no stockings!" she said. "But all the presents are under the tree already" Alec said lifting his head from where it had been resting on Magnus's chest. "But we still have to put up stockings, it's traditional!" Clary protested.

Jace rolled his eyes and got up. "I'm sure we have some somewhere, I'll go find them" he said leaving the room. Within a few minutes Jace had returned with 6 large, brightly coloured stockings, each with a different cartoon Santa on it. He passed out the stockings, one to each person. "So what do we do with them now?" Alec said sarcastically. Jace shot him a glare and Clary rolled her eyes.

Clary got up and attached her stocking to the fireplace. The others followed suit and soon the fireplace was hung with stockings. "It's 11, should we go to bed?" Isabelle asked. "Are you tired Iz?" Jace scoffed. "No, but it's Christmas so we need to be asleep by midnight" Isabelle replied. "What so Santa can come?" Alec said sarcastically grinning at Jace. Isabelle rolled her eyes and got up, Simon following her as they yelled goodnight. Magnus whispered something in Alec's ear and Alec blushed but got up and took Magnus's hand and went off to the bedroom, though Clary doubted it was to sleep.

Clary nestled into Jace's chest as he hugged her tightly. "Do you want to go to sleep?" Jace asked nestling his head next to Clary's. She shook her head slightly and mumbled something about being comfortable.

What seemed like moments later, Clary awoke to a loud clanging noise. "It's only the clock" Jace whispered soothingly. "It's midnight, Merry Christmas Clary" he added pressing a kiss to her head. "Merry Christmas Jace" Clary mumbled before drifting back into sleep.

Hello wonderful people!

So here's my Christmas Eve fic, the plot of this will continue in tomorrow's Christmas Day fic just to finish Ficmas! This one is a little longer because, well, it's Christmas!

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See you tomorrow for the special Christmas Day fic. Something is happening (ooohhh mysterious)

Also, the song at the start is Santa Tell Me-Ariane Grande.

Also, I know Christmas Eve is tomorrow but Ficmas ends tomorrow and I wanted to finish with a Christmas Day fic so the Christmas Eve fic had to go up today.

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